NPR

For some secular Jews, their pandemic hobby has been learning Yiddish

From noshing to schmoozing to schlepping, many Americans know a handful of Yiddish words. But outside of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, few people actually speak Yiddish as a language. And yet, Deena Prichep ...
The Forward

How Yiddish became a ‘foreign language’ in Israel despite being spoken there since the 1400s

It’s 1945, three years before the establishment of the state of Israel and at the very end of the Holocaust. Vilna Ghetto fighter Rozka Korczak-Marla comes to Tel Aviv, addressing the assembled in ...
Style Weekly

Transmission and Renewal

While there’s never been a Yiddish festival in Richmond — or even Virginia — there’s a growing international movement of people like Shokin and Kraft (Yiddishists) who are committed to the study and ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

What I wish people knew about Yiddishists

This article originally appeared on Alma. My name is Rokhl and I’m a Yiddishist. I’ve been a Yiddishist my entire adult life, pretty much since I took my first Yiddish class in college. Being visibly ...
NPR

Yiddish is making a comeback

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive. Before World War II, some ...